Covering a Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trusteeship election with 23 candidates (two dropped out on September 30) vying for five seats is a challenging proposition for a semi-monthly community magazine. Aside from limited personnel resources and allowing that several candidates don’t hold public meetings, how does one introduce the contestants to the electorate in so short a span of time?
Both the Jam-e-Jamshed and the Parsi Times are replete with advertisements extolling the virtues and viewpoints of the aspirants, as is thankfully this issue of Parsiana. But advertisements only provide an insight into what the hopefuls choose to convey. At election......